The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-23
Baseball Notes.

Baseball Notes. s stA
| Indianapolis made bid for Herman, of New
| York, but it was refused. The management may
| sign Pendergast. of Utica, soon.
Chicago Journal: The Chicago base ball club
is not utterly beyond hope. 1t still wins game
occasionally when the other fellows careless.
were tie in one respect, the former having lost
only four games, while the latter had won but
four.
Greenwood. of the Baitimores. is playing a
great game at second base On Saturday he had
a credit of eight putouts, six assists and two
base hits
PEBBLES. the Brooklyn pitcher. has been sent
home by President Byrne and laid off without
pay. He has been playing indifferentiy, and is
out of shape.
Detroit Tribune We trust the Chicago team
will not get discouraged. The haying season
will soon open with wages from $3.50 to 81 80 a
day and board
Manager Kelley, of the Louisvles. received a
telegram offering So. 900 for the release of Ram
sey. The bid was made by the Cincinnati club.
Kelly would not part with Ramsey for $4,000.
In practice Mccarthy, Of the Phillies. plays
any in field position to perfection. but he loses
his head in game. He would probably develop
into great in fielder with two years ex-
perience
st. Louis Republican: The Detroits in the
League, and the Browns in the Association will
be twenty games ahead of any other clubs in
their associations at the close of the season.
Mark the prediction.
Seward, the young pitcher of the Athletic club,
first pitched at Terre Haute, Ind. He is a
strong young man, and has a promising future
on the DIAMOND. His best ball is that few
pitchers can coMmand-an overland drop curve.
Arthur Irwin of the Phillies, VINO was hit by
ball. was in a very precarious condition, but at
last accounts he had greatly improved. The
nouncement is made that all danger has passed.
but that it will be long time before he will be
seen upon ball-fed.
The base ball enthusiast who at the opening
of tn hat ar I'M
would win at least one hundred games, probably
meant that the club would lose that many. In
dianapols has good club but its opponents
seem to be just little bit better.
James. Oswego's deaf mute does not come up
to the standard as frst-class pitcher. Virtue,
also of the Oswego team, has been sold to AL
toona. He is popular in the Pennsylvania
League. is good player when his arm gets into
shape, and will probably be let CO.
The Nets expect to secure McMullen. of the
Pioneers. San Francisco. splendid pitcher,
ton. the youth who is surprising everyone with
his deceptive drop ball, which enables him
strike out from sixteen to twenty per game, and
gives but few hits.
sit makes me tired to hear men talking about
errors and averages" says John Bufdock. of the
Bostons why don't men put their minds on
own individual worka The directors know
whether a man is playing ball or not"
Roseman, who was suspended without pay for
drunkenness and characterization by Manager
Bancroft, at Baltimore, month ago, has been
reinstated. He has Joined the Athletic club.
Flanagan seems TO have forgotten how to play
ball, and he has been sent home. Stovey win
play first base and Roseman center field.
Manager Kelly is in favor of the consolidation
OF the Association and League into a twelve club
organization. He SAYS the two great baseball
examinations cannot afford to fight each other
much longer and that they will of necessity have
to consolidate The new plan would bring the
greatest players and clubs on the diamond into
one grand league. The proposed move is very
popular. 1
On Decoration day St Louis plays two games
in Brooklyn. Cincinnati two gamas in Baltimore,
Louisville two in Philadelphia, Chicago two
games in New York. Detroit two in Boston, In
dianapolis two in Washington. The Nets will
play two games in Cleveland and the Phladel-
phias two games in Pittsburg--the first time in
years that games have been played in the West
on Decoration day